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(Clarify that "Malloy's Favorite/Mother's Delight" proper is the three part tune associated with Jim Clark and Michael Coleman. Doherty's two part tune (misnamed by Feldman) is a fragment.) |
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'''MALLOY'S FAVORITE''' (Rogha Uí Mhaolmhuaidh). AKA and see "[[Mulloy's Reel]]," "[[Molloy's Favourite (2)]]." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. Breathnach (1985) | '''MALLOY'S FAVORITE''' (Rogha Uí Mhaolmhuaidh). AKA and see "[[Mulloy's Reel]]," "[[Molloy's Favourite (2)]]." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. Breathnach (1985) transcribed Michael Coleman's setting from a privately made 1940 recording reissued by Shanachie (see below) and noted that the tune is related to "[[Colonel Fraser]]," one of a family of tunes including "[[Green Fields of Ireland]]." The tune was recorded for Columbia as "[[Mother's Delight]]" by fiddler James (Jim) Clark (1887-1938) of Drumlish, Co. Longford, in October, 1928. Clark recorded it again as "Dowd's Favourite" in 1935 for the Regal-Zonophone label. Clark's 1935 tune name is usually associated with another reel ([[Dowd's Favorite]]) but perhaps points to Sligo fiddler John O'Dowd as the source of the setting. Longford fiddler Paddy Reynolds' name for the tune, as related to New York musician Don Meade, was "Col. Fraser's Maggot." | ||
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See also Donegal fiddler John Doherty's two-part version (which skips the Clark/Coleman version's first part), and which was published as "[[Cameronian Reel (3) aka (The)]]" ("[[Old Cameronian (The)]]"), and which has since been called "[[Mother's Delight]]." | |||
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Columbia CO 33309-F (78 RPM), James Clark (1928, as "Mother's Delight"). Shanachie Records, | ''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Columbia CO 33309-F (78 RPM), James Clark (1928, as "Mother's Delight"). Regal-Zonophone IZ 637 (78 RPM), James Clark (1935, as "Dowd's Favourite"), reissued on ''The Fiddler's Delight'', Oldtime Records OTR 107 (CD). Shanachie Records 330006 (LP), ''The Classic Recordings of Michael Coleman'', as "Malloy's Favorite" (1979)</font> | ||
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Revision as of 17:45, 7 May 2018
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MALLOY'S FAVORITE (Rogha Uí Mhaolmhuaidh). AKA and see "Mulloy's Reel," "Molloy's Favourite (2)." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. Breathnach (1985) transcribed Michael Coleman's setting from a privately made 1940 recording reissued by Shanachie (see below) and noted that the tune is related to "Colonel Fraser," one of a family of tunes including "Green Fields of Ireland." The tune was recorded for Columbia as "Mother's Delight" by fiddler James (Jim) Clark (1887-1938) of Drumlish, Co. Longford, in October, 1928. Clark recorded it again as "Dowd's Favourite" in 1935 for the Regal-Zonophone label. Clark's 1935 tune name is usually associated with another reel (Dowd's Favorite) but perhaps points to Sligo fiddler John O'Dowd as the source of the setting. Longford fiddler Paddy Reynolds' name for the tune, as related to New York musician Don Meade, was "Col. Fraser's Maggot."
See also Donegal fiddler John Doherty's two-part version (which skips the Clark/Coleman version's first part), and which was published as "Cameronian Reel (3) aka (The)" ("Old Cameronian (The)"), and which has since been called "Mother's Delight."
Source for notated version: fiddler Michael Coleman (1891-1945, County Sligo, Ireland/New York) [Breathnach].
Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ III), 1985; No. 148, p. 69. Feldman & O'Doherty (Northern Fiddler), 1979; p. 167.
Recorded sources: Columbia CO 33309-F (78 RPM), James Clark (1928, as "Mother's Delight"). Regal-Zonophone IZ 637 (78 RPM), James Clark (1935, as "Dowd's Favourite"), reissued on The Fiddler's Delight, Oldtime Records OTR 107 (CD). Shanachie Records 330006 (LP), The Classic Recordings of Michael Coleman, as "Malloy's Favorite" (1979)